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<此处为图片> Friendship can bring us happiness and heartache. You might meet your best friend when you are five years old and stay close throughout your childhood, help each other through your teenage years, and experience many life milestones together. On the other hand, you might meet someone who instantly becomes your best friend and have a few months or even years of intense friendship, only for it to fizzle out as you begin leading different lives. Before you know it, you have lost touch with someone who used to know everything about you. Our friends are usually like us, and this is no accident. Sociologists say that the concept of homophily is involved in making close friends. Homophily is the idea that we naturally form connections with people who are similar to us, whether this is in age, gender, interests, or ethnicity. For example, homophily explains why schoolchildren have friendships with others in their grade level rather than in other grades. However, is this still true for the social media age? It's not uncommon to have hundreds even thousands of "friends" across different social media accounts, many of them with different backgrounds from our own. According to the psychologist Robin Dunbar, we are only able to maintain 150 friendships. He believes that friendships can be organized in circles - the outer circles are acquaintances moving in towards an inner core. This inner core can have five people, which usually includes our romantic partners, and best friends. Dunbar describes this inner core as a buffer that protects us from the stresses of modern life. In a similar way, close friendships can have physical benefits. Chatting, laughing until you cry, or even just hanging out doing nothing with friends can release endorphins, which have a calming effect. Regular social contact can make us happier, live longer, and even improve our immune system so that we are less likely to become ill and we recover more quickly from illness. So, does this mean that we are going to be unhappy and unhealthy if we don't have a best friend? Not necessarily. Although a close connection with a best friend is obvious, we can also connect with acquaintances and even strangers. Even temporary or one-off connections give us a feel-good factor that boosts our well-being. To really feel these benefits, the social interaction or friendship needs to be reciprocal. When we choose people, we want to feel that they are choosing us, too. In recent studies, many aspects of our everyday lives have moved online, including friendships. Talking and sharing our lives with our friends on social media can actually bring us closer to the friends we have offline. It gives us extra opportunities to interact with them when real life might get in the way of seeing them in person. However, online communication doesn't release neurochemicals in the same ways as face-to-face communication, so it shouldn't substitute meeting up with friends in real life.【缺少答案,请补充】